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No. 768,405. PATENTED AUG. 23, 1904. J'. M. SHANAHAN.

BARBERS TURN.

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BARBERS TURN.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. SHANAHAN, OF VORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA.

BARBERS TU RN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,405, dated August 23, 1904.

Application iiled April 25, 1904.

T0 @ZZ whom, t 71mg/ concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. SHANAHAN, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Vorthing-ton, in the county of Nobles and State of Minnesota. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barbers Turns; and Ido hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention, which relates to what are known in the art as barbers turns, has for its object the production of a simply and ini expensively constructed machine of this character possessing a number of advantages, among which may be mentioned precision of action, efiiciency in operation, and facility of manipulation to expose the customers numbers successively and to reset the parts for the next period of business.

The invention is designed to improve the methods at present employed in barbers shops of serving customers by providing means which will insure the serving of customers in the order of their entry in the shop, a feature of the improvement being a ticket-holder from which numbered tickets are withdrawn and distributed to the customers for their designation, and also means for displaying successively consecutive numbers denoting the service.

The details of construction and operation of my improved machine will be readily comprehended, reference being had to tire following description and to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the machine in its preferred form of embodiment, it being understood that various modifications may be made therein without exceeding the scope of the concluding claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional view of the same looking' to the left. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken at the right of the center and looking to the right. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the pawl-and-ratchet means and brake for the upper roll. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the bell-operating means.

fReferring to the drawings by numerals, 1 designates the casing, consisting of a back 2,

serai No. 204,853. cN@ model sides 3 4, a bottom 5, top 6, and a front consisting of two iixed parts 7 8 and two hinged parts or doors 9 10. The bottom 5 is extended at the front and sides and may serve as the supporting-base, or back extensions may be provided, as shown, in which are holes for screws, which secure the casing to a suitable upright.

Secured to the lower door 10 by means of clips 11 11 is a box 12, holding numbered tickets 13 13, which are consecutively stacked and are distributed successively to the customers as they enter the shop. The tickets are perforated to receive a rod 14, screwed at its lower end in the thickened bottom of the box, said rod terminating at its upper end a distance from the box-top 15 equal approximately to the thickness of a ticket, whereby the uppermost ticket is free to be withdrawn through the opening' in front of said top 15. The tickets are fed upwardly by a follower 16, having an opening for the rod, at which opening' is a steadying-sleeve 17, integral with the follower. The follower' is pressed upwardly by a spring 18, coiled around the rod and interposed between the follower and boxbottom. The box is provided adjacent to its p top with a convenient shelf 19.

rlhe order of service or turns is displayed at an opening 2O in the fixed section 7 of the casing-front, a belt or apron 21, carrying a consecutive series of numbers, being movable across said opening and in front of a plate 22, secured in a recess in said section 7. The belt is secured at its ends to rolls, the upper one, 23, being rotated to cause the belt to move to successively display the numbers and the lower one, 24, being the rewinding-roll. 25 is the shaft for the upper roll 23, having bearings in the casing sides. Fixed on the shaft is a ratchet-wheel 26, the teeth of which are successively engaged by the shoulder of a pawl 27, pivoted at its upper end to a lever 28. The lever is pivoted at one end by a bolt 29 to the casing side 4, and said lever is moved to effect movement of the roll through the pawl and ratchet by a rod 30, pivoted to the opposite end of the lever and extending at its upper end through the casing-top 6. The rod at its upper end is equipped with a cord 31, running to each chair, and by raising the rod IOO the upper roll is positively rotated to move the belt and expose at the opening 2O the'next number. The pawl, lever, and rod are retracted y after each upward movement by a coiled spring 32, secured at its ends to the free end of the pawl and to the casing side 4. A coiled spring 33, secured to said pawl and to the said casing side, serves to hold the pawl` against the ratchet-wheel 26.

At each movement of the belt an audible signal is sounded, said signal consisting of a bell 34. The bell-ringing means is operated in the movement of the lever 28, said lever engaging the free end of a lever 35, pivoted at 36 and connected bya rod 37 with the bellringing means. The bell is sounded to'signal to the unserved customers in the shop the 'change in the number on the belt. In the operative movement of the belt the latter is kept taut by a brake 38, consisting of a split ring or band encircling the lower rollbeyond the belt, the ends of the ring or band being connected by a bolt 39, to which is attached one end of a coiled spring 40, the other end of the spring being secured 'to the casingbase 5.

In operation reverse rotation ofthe upper roll is prevented by a spring-pressed pawl .41, which is in engagement with the teeth of a ratchet-wheel 42, fixed to the roll-shaft 25. To rewind the belt for a new period'of business, the pawl 4l is disengaged from thel ratchet- Wheel 42 by a pin 43 on a short shaft 4'4,`jour naled in the side 3, the shaft and pin'being moved by manipulating a button 45 on the exposed end of the shaft tocause the pin to press the pawl outwardly, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 4. The pawl 27 is then disengaged by hand from the ratchet-wheel 26, being held in disengaged position'by a pin or stop 46, insertible in a'hole in the side'4. A hand-crank 47 on the shaft of thelower roll is then turned torewind the now freed belt on'said roll and from off theupperroll, and to maintain the belt during the rewinding operation in taut condition there is provided at the upper rollV a band-brake 48, one end of Awhich is secured to the pivot of the pawl l4l and the other end of which is attached to a rod 49, extending through and beyond the casing-top 6 and provided with a Engerhold 50. A spring 51 at said rod 49 serves to release the upper roll from the action of the brake. to present the iirst number in proper position to be` exposed by elevating the rod B0 lthe pawls 27 and 4l are released and are returned to engagement with their respective ratchetwheels, and the parts are then ready for .operation.

I claim asmy invention- 1. In a machine of the class described, a movable element carrying numbers, means for moving the element -step by step to successively expose the numbers one at a time, a se-` After the belthas been rewouud ries of cards or tickets each bearing a number corresponding to the numbers on the movable element, said tickets being arranged so that their numbers will be exposed in the same order as the numbers on the movable element and means for preventing the removal of the tickets except in their predetermined order consisting of a box, a rod passing through perforations in the tickets and terminating below the top of the box a distance equal approximately to the thickness of a ticket and a spring-follower for feeding' the tickets to an opening in the box.

2. Ina machine of the class described, acasing having an opening, upper and lower rolls, a number-carrying belt attached to said rolls andmovable across said opening, a ratchetwheel on one of the'rolls, a pivoted lever, a pawl pivoted to the lever and engaging the wheel-teeth, a hand-rod attached to the lever, a spring attached to the pawl for pressing the latter against the wheel and for retracting the parts, belt-rewinding means,and means for holding the pawl out of engagement with the wheel'during the rewinding operation.

3. In a machine of the class described, a casing having an opening, upper and lower rolls,

4a number-carrying belt attached to said rolls Ament of the parts for sounding said signal.

4. In a machine of the class described, acasing having an opening, upper andlower rolls, a number-carrying belt attached to said rolls and movable across said opening, means at the upper'rollfor moving it and the belt step by step, a permanent brake at the lower roll,

land a temporary brake at the upper roll and means for setting the upper brake when the belt is rewound.

5. AIna machine of the class described, a casing having an opening, Lipper and lower rolls, a number-carrying belt attached to said rolls and movable across said opening, pawl-andratchet meansat theupper roll for moving it and thebelt stepby step, a'rewinding-crank at the lower roll, a permanent brake at the lower roll, pawl-and-ratchet means at the upper roll for preventing reverse rotation, means for disengaging said pawls from their ratchetwleels anda temporary brake at the upper ro In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN M. SHANAHAN.

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